Pierre-Yves Lord opens up about his mother’s mourning: “It was really when I slowed down my pace that it resurfaced”

Pierre-Yves Lord has taken a few steps back in terms of his professional commitments over the past year, he admitted in the most recent episode of the podcast Open your game.

The host stressed to Marie-Claude Barrette that he had accumulated physical fatigue last fall, with the death of his mother last summer, but also with the animation of Gémeaux and its shows 100 geniuses et Plaza Pleasurein addition to its commitments with the National Day committee, its DJ sets and the activities of its Saturne 5 production company, established in Quebec.

“I was tired. I worked a lot in the fall […] I was busy, but at some point I slowed down,” he said, noting that he “felt out of his depth” for a certain period, a few months ago.

“I took a step back, I took the time to rest, I traveled. I had to work a little more on myself,” said the host, who did not feel at peace with all aspects of his life during this period, although today he admits to feeling the feeling of having done his best as a human in many areas of his life.

The host of the Grand spectacle de la Fête nationale du Québec at Parc Maisonneuve also confided to Marie-Claude Barrette that he was overtaken, during his professional slowdown, by the mourning of his mother, which he finally let exist for a few months after he left.

“It didn’t happen instantly. When my mother died, I was in a whirlwind of work. […] Grief manifested itself in insomnia, in certain reactions. I wasn’t immediately able to put it into words. I also have the impression of having trapped him, the pain and the destabilization that it gave me. It’s really when I slowed down my pace that it resurfaced in lots of moments where you don’t expect it,” he said.

“At the identity level too. In reflection and in my nostalgia for a mother and father who decided to adopt me, who came to pick me up in Haiti, who took me in her arms, who brought me back here and who allowed me to live this beautiful life here. Of course there is recognition, but seeing her go makes me feel like I’m tripping. […] I feel dizzy. What is my base here,” he said to Marie-Claude Barrette, who also lost a loved one last year.

Pierre-Yves Lord lost his mother, Monique Philie, last July. She died of a stroke at age 85.